Manual Hair Dye Apparatus and Method for Using the Same

1. A system for manually preparing a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale in communication with the control system; software for displaying the instructions on said display in response to a manual input from the input controls, and monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; formula adjusting software configured to adjust the formula of the hair dye mixture when a weight of a colorant or dye blending material being manually added to the scale is different than the amount recommended in the formula such that the formula adjusting software is configured to define an adjusted formula; and the formula adjusting software is further configured to display the adjusted formula on said display whereby a user is able to make corrections to the colorants and/or dye blending materials in accordance with the adjusted formula.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formula adjusting software adjusts the formula when a manual input is received by the input controls to accept a weight of the colorant or dye blending material on the scale.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring software monitors changes in the weight on the scale and the control system calculates a difference between a recommended formulated amount of a colorant or dye blending material and an actual amount of the colorant or dye blending material added to the scale.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the difference is measured down to a zeroed amount left to indicate how much additional colorant or dye blending material is needed to be added to the scale to reach the recommended formulated amount of the colorant.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the control system is in communication with a salon management software to exchange information on customers and formulas of hair dye mixtures associated to said customers.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the control system includes software to store in the memory any adjustments to the formula of the hair dye mixture.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the control system includes software to store in the memory any adjustments to the formula of the hair dye mixture and includes software to send the adjustments to the formula of the hair dye mixture to the salon management software.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formula adjusting software adjusts the formula of a hair dye mixture upon receiving an initial input on a change to a total amount of mixture needed or a change to a strength of the mixture needed.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein upon receiving an input that the hair dye mixture is a new custom color, the control system further displays a listing of colorants and dye blending materials, monitors a separate amount and a total amount of any colorant(s) and/or dye blending materials) placed in a receptacle, and stores a formulated hair dye mixture upon receiving an input the mixture is completed.

10. A system for manually preparing a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale in communication with the control system; software for displaying the instructions on said display in response to a manual input from the input controls, and monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; formula adjusting software to adjust the formula of the hair dye mixture when a weight of a colorant or dye blending material being manually added to the scale is different than the amount recommended in the formula; and wherein the formula adjusted by the formula adjusting software is stored in the memory or displayed by the displaying software whereby a user is able to make corrections to the colorants and/or dye blending materials in accordance with the formula adjusted by the formula adjusting software to recreate the hair dye mixture, and wherein the control system further includes software to display a color-coded analog bar-graph representing one or more of the colorant(s) and/or dye blending material(s) from the hair dye mixture, and includes software to change the color-coded analog bar-graph to indicate an amount being added to the scale.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the control system recalibrates the scale to a zero weight when the control system receives an input indicating that a previous hair dye component added to the hair dye mixture is completed and the next hair dye component in the formula of the hair dye mixture is required to be added.

12. The system of claim 1 further comprising a validation software to check a hair dye component packages against the hair dye component(s) in the formula to ensure and validate a user is accurately manually recreating the hair dye mixture.

13. A system for preparation of a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a computer control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and target amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale connected to the control system; monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; and software configured to display a color-coded analog bar-graph representing one of the colorants or dye blending materials from the hair dye mixture, and said software further configured to change a color of the color-coded analog bar-graph to indicate an amount of the colorant or dye blending material being added to the scale as the amount approaches the target amount recommended by the formula.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the monitoring software monitors changes in the weight on the scale and the control system calculates a difference between a recommended formulated amount of a colorant or dye blending material and an actual amount of the colorant or dye blending material added to the scale.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the difference is measured down to a zeroed amount, adjusted for a weight of the receptacle, to indicate how much additional colorant or dye blending material is needed to be added to the scale to reach the recommended formulated amount of the colorant.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formula adjusting software is further configured to store in the memory any changes in the formula of the hair dye mixture.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the control system is linked to a salon management software to exchange information on customers and formulations of hair dye mixtures associated to said customers.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the control system includes software to store in the memory any changes in the formula of the hair dye mixture and includes software to send the changes in the formula of the hair dye mixture to the salon management software.

19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the formula adjusting software is further configured to adjust the formula of a hair dye mixture upon receiving an initial input on a change to a total amount of mixture needed or a change in a strength of the mixture needed.

20. A system for preparation of a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a computer control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale connected to the control system; monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; and software for displaying on said display an amount of the colorant(s) and/or dye blending material(s) required to be manually added to the scale and software for indicating on said display the recommended amounts in comparison to the amount that has been added to the scale, and wherein upon receiving an input that the hair dye mixture is a new custom color, the control system further displays a listing of colorants and dye blending materials, monitors a separate amount and a total amount of any colorant(s) and/or dye blending material(s) placed in a receptacle, and stores a formulated hair dye mixture upon receiving an input the mixture is completed.

21. The system of claim 13 , wherein the control system recalibrates the scale to a zero weight when the control system receives an input indicating that a previous hair dye component added to the hair dye mixture is completed and the next hair dye component in the formulation of the hair dye mixture is required to be added.

22. A system for preparation of a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a computer control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale connected to the control system; monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; software for displaying on said display an amount of the colorant(s) and/or dye blending material(s) required to be manually added to the scale and software for indicating on said display the recommended amounts in comparison to the amount that has been added to the scale; and a software to validate a hair dye component packages being used against the hair dye component(s) in the formulation to ensure and validate accurate re-creation of the hair dye mixture.

23. A system for manually preparing a hair dye mixture, the system comprising: a control system having at least a memory, input controls, and a display; at least one formula stored in said memory, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; a scale in communication with the control system; software for displaying the instructions on said display in response to a manual input from the input controls; monitoring software to monitor a weight on the scale; formula adjusting software to adjust the formula of the hair dye mixture when a weight of a colorant or dye blending material being manually added to the scale is different than the amount recommended in the formula; wherein the formula adjusted by the formula adjusting software is stored in the memory or displayed by the displaying software whereby a user is able to make corrections to the colorants and/or dye blending materials in accordance with the formula adjusted by the formula adjusting software to recreate the hair dye mixture; and wherein the control system is in communication with a salon management software to exchange information on customers and formulas of hair dye mixtures associated to said customers.

24. The system of claim 23 , wherein the control system includes software to store in the memory any adjustments in the formula of the hair dye mixture and includes software to send said adjustments in the formula of the hair dye mixture to the salon management software.

25. The system of claim 23 , wherein the formula adjusting software adjusts the formula when a manual input is received by the input controls to accept a different weight of the colorant or dye blending material.

26. The system of claim 23 , wherein the formula adjusting software adjusts the formula of a hair dye mixture upon receiving an initial input on a change to a total amount of mixture needed or a change to a strength of the mixture needed.

27. The system of claim 23 further comprising: a custom color software, which when upon receiving a manual input from the input control for a creation of a hair dye custom color mixture, the custom color software, prompts a user to select or enter one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and monitors the scale for an amount corresponding to said one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials, and creates and stores a hair dye mixture formula based upon the selected or entered colorants and/or dye blending materials and the corresponding amounts.

28. The system of claim 23 , wherein the control system includes software to store in the memory any adjustments in the formula of the hair dye mixture and includes software to send the adjustments in the formula of the hair dye mixture to the salon management software.

29. The system of claim 23 , wherein the control system recalibrates the scale to a zero weight, adjusted for a weight of a receptacle, when the control system receives an input indicating that a previous hair dye component added to the hair dye mixture is completed and the next hair dye component in the formulation of the hair dye mixture is required to be added.

30. A method for manually preparing a hair dye mixture, the method comprising: providing a scale and control system in communication with each other, and having the control system provide for at least a memory, input controls, and a display; storing in said memory at least one formula, the formula defining instructions of one or more colorants and/or dye blending materials and amounts recommended for manually recreating a hair dye mixture; displaying the instructions on said display in response to a manual input from the input controls; monitoring a weight on the scale as a colorant or dye blending material is manually added to the scale; adjusting the formula of the hair dye mixture when a weight of a colorant or dye blending material being manually added to the scale is different than the amount recommended in the formula; and displaying an adjusted formula on said display whereby a user is able to make corrections to the colorants and/or dye blending materials in accordance with the adjusted formula.